voir
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French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French veoir, from Latin vidēre, present active infinitive of videō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyd-.
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
voir
- to see (visually)
- Je vois ma mère là-bas. - I see my mother over there.
- to see (to understand)
- Tu vois que tu avais tort ? - Do you see that you were wrong?
- to see (to visit, to go and see)
Conjugation [edit]
- Verbs derived from voir form their future and conditional forms using the root verr- instead of the vr- or voir- of other verbs.
Conjugation of voir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | voir | avoir vu | |||||
| gerund | en voyant | en ayant vu | |||||
| present participle | voyant | ||||||
| past participle | vu | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | vois | vois | voit | voyons | voyez | voient |
| imperfect | voyais | voyais | voyait | voyions | voyiez | voyaient | |
| past historic1 | vis | vis | vit | vîmes | vîtes | virent | |
| future | verrai | verras | verra | verrons | verrez | verront | |
| conditional | verrais | verrais | verrait | verrions | verriez | verraient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | voie | voies | voie | voyions | voyiez | voient |
| imperfect1 | visse | visses | vît | vissions | vissiez | vissent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | vois | — | voyons | voyez | — | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Derived terms [edit]
Old French [edit]
Adjective [edit]
voir m
- Alternative form of verai.
